How to get rid of a mattress in Edinboro, PA.

Companies that come to your home and carry the mattress out, so you need no vehicle. The prices below are starting prices unless stated — stairs, box springs and extra items add to them.

Most charities will not take a used mattress. These are the ones we checked, including the ones that say no.

• The Salvation Army (satruck.org): accepted-items list includes 'Mattresses' and beds; also says local ordinances and need vary by location and to call 1-800-SA-TRUCK to confirm what a local center accepts. Source
• Doesn’t take mattresses. Habitat for Humanity national ReStore guide: 'Mattresses and box springs are not accepted.' Source

Policies vary by branch. Call before you carry one over — we asked each of the big three directly: Goodwill, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity.

What we established about this city in particular — including where it runs nothing of its own and residents have to look elsewhere.

• Edinboro contracts its collection out and publishes a large item allowance, but never says what a large item is. The Borough's refuse page states that "Borough of Edinboro municipal refuse and recycling collection is currently contracted to Tri-County Industries, Inc." and that "Water, sewer, refuse, and recycling are all included in the same bi-monthly bill." Collection is zoned by the main street: "The Borough is divided into two pick-up zones. Refuse and recycling on the west side of Meadville/Erie Street is picked up every Monday. Refuse and recycling on the east side of Meadville/Erie Street is picked up every Tuesday." The bulky allowance is a single sentence standing on its own: "One large item is allowed each week." Immediately beneath it the Borough prints a short calendar headed "2026 Bulk Pickup Days (Mondays):" listing May 11th, August 24th, October 12th and December 14th. The page does not reconcile the two, and does not define a large item, list what qualifies, name a quantity beyond the one, or set any charge. Mattresses, box springs and bedding are not mentioned anywhere on the page. Holidays that delay trash collection are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Christmas, and an observed holiday falling on a Sunday does not change the schedule. Collection problems and questions go to the Borough office at 814-734-1812 or to Tri-County Industries at 1-800-457-8202. Household hazardous waste and electronic waste are handled differently, by an at-your-curb collection scheduled by calling Tri-County on 1-800-457-8202, and that program is separate from the large item allowance. Residents may also drop glass, sorted by color, at a facility operated by Bayfront Glass, LLC at the Borough Sewer Plant, 301 Water Street Ext., Edinboro, PA 16412, open 7 AM to 3 PM weekdays and 7-11 AM on Saturdays; that site takes glass only and is no route for a mattress. Source Not confirmed: Edinboro never says whether a mattress counts as a large item. The term is used without a definition and no accepted or excluded list is published anywhere on the Borough's refuse page, so nothing establishes that the weekly allowance reaches bedding, and nothing establishes that it refuses it. No service is recorded on the strength of it. Not confirmed: The relationship between "One large item is allowed each week" and the four dated "2026 Bulk Pickup Days (Mondays)" of May 11, August 24, October 12 and December 14 is not explained. Whether the weekly allowance runs all year and the four Mondays are something additional, or whether large items are only taken on those four days, could not be established from the page. Not confirmed: No fee is published for a large item. The Borough states only that water, sewer, refuse and recycling are billed together bimonthly, with rates set by Council resolution under § 20-107, and that bimonthly bill is a periodic utility charge rather than a price for removing an item. Nothing on the page says a large item is free or included, so no price is recorded. Not confirmed: Tri-County Industries publishes no customer-facing rate card or mattress policy for Edinboro that could be verified. A per-ton transfer station figure surfaced in search results on an unattributed PDF naming neither the company nor the site; it is not recorded. Not confirmed: The 2027 bulk pickup Mondays are not published.
• Edinboro's Chapter 20 makes the Borough and its contractor the only lawful collectors, and sets limits a mattress would test. Part 1 of the chapter, adopted December 2, 2002 by Ord. 506 and amended as recently as February 12, 2024 by Ord. No. 632, exists in part for "making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation other than the Borough or its contracted agency to engage in the business of collection, removal and disposal of garbage and recyclables within said Borough". Section 20-108 spells the prohibitions out: it is unlawful for anyone other than the Borough, the contracted Borough agency or the contracted private dumpster agency "to remove, transport or convey, or cause to be removed, transported or conveyed, any garbage along any public street or alley or other public places", or "to engage in or conduct the business of collecting, removing or disposing of garbage and recyclables within the limits of the Borough of Edinboro". It is likewise unlawful "To dispose of, deposit or place... any garbage or refuse upon or in any public street, park, alley, lane, place, catch basin or receptacle leading into any sewer or in or upon any private lot", and "To place or discard household refuse in public trash containers." "GARBAGE" is defined broadly, as "Any waste other than combustible refuse, compost or recyclable materials, to include waste generated by residential activities, commercial or industrial activities, and construction or demolition activities", and the chapter nowhere carves out or names bulky items. Two handling limits bear on a mattress. Under § 20-103(1) the crews "shall not be required to remove any garbage not properly prepared for collection or stored in receptacles of the type and in the manner provided in this Part, nor shall they be required to empty any receptacle too large or too heavy for one man to handle." Under § 20-104(1)(G)(3), "The combined weight of any receptacle and its contents shall not exceed 100 pounds." Set-out timing is tight at both ends: residents "are responsible to move such refuse and recyclables to the edge of adjacent street for pickup no earlier than 5:00 p.m. the day before it is to be picked up", and are "responsible for returning emptied containers to behind the front building line of the residence no later than 7:00 p.m. the day the refuse is picked up", with violations "subject to enforcement through the Borough Property Nuisance Ordinance". Refuse otherwise sits "behind the front building line of the respective residence". Fees are set by resolution and billed bimonthly under § 20-107, payable by the 10th day after the bill, with a lien available on accounts delinquent more than 60 days. The penalty under § 20-111(2) is "a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days", and "Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense." Section 20-111(1) adds that the Zoning Officer "has the right to impose a specified fee for failure of an owner to comply with the ordinance" for curbside and dumpster violations, in an amount set by Council resolution. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 20 never uses the words "mattress", "bulky" or "large item", and sets no bulky item program, allowance or charge. The weekly large item allowance exists only on the Borough's refuse page, with no ordinance section behind it that could be found. Not confirmed: The curbside violation fee the Zoning Officer may impose under § 20-111(1) is set "from time to time by resolution of Borough Council" and the code names no figure. The resolution setting it was not located, so the amount is not recorded. Not confirmed: The one-man handling rule in § 20-103(1) and the 100-pound cap in § 20-104(1)(G)(3) are written about receptacles rather than about loose items set at the curb, so whether either is applied to a mattress is not established.

• Operator location page gives 219 Street Road, West Grove PA 19390; DEP permit 101069 directory gives 261 Street Road. Preserve both; no automatic address overwrite or branch merge. Source
• Seven facility cards distinguish YCRRC/Small Load Drop-Off at 2651 Blackbridge Road from management at 2700, recycling at 2685 Blackthorne Court, ash site, recreation and sanitary landfill. Operator ZIP 17406 differs from DEP YCRRC ZIP 17402. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on PA DEP pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• PA DEP County Recycling Coordinators directory (select county) for local drop-offs and events; RecycleSearch for material-specific facilities; DEP Recycling Hotline 800-346-4242. DEP says bulky items go through your refuse hauler, or your county recycling coordinator if you have none. Source